Month: May 2012

Fairy empire

May 5, 2012
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I had this discussion with a fellow translator about what is and is not translatable. He said that a certain Yousei Teikoku song (Shoseijo no uta) falls in the latter category. I disagree(d).

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Chromium YouTube crash

May 5, 2012
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For quite a while Chromium has been randomly crashing when i tried playing YouTube videos. To be more exact, those tabs with YT videos open crash (not just the plugin, nor the whole browser). Sometimes it doesn’t crash, sometimes it does.

I managed to narrow it down to that it mostly happens if i have more than one YT tabs open. True, sometimes it crashes with only one open as well, but a reload usually solves that. Also it often crashes tabs when i try to play embedded videos.

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Aegisub 3.0 on Ubuntu

May 5, 2012
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After the Ubuntu distro update to Pangolin of course more stuff broke at first than were fixed, Aegisub being one of them. I had 2.1.9 before, but since the svn trunk is already the 3.0, i rather grabbed that than the older version (r6737). Installing, I was (of course) again faced by the annoying wxWidgets errors during configure.

For 2.1.9 I just worked around it somehow, but this time something snapped and i just got wxGTK 2.9.3. If only it was that simple… I had lots of problems with both wxGTK and Aegisub, but after a day or so I managed to get it working with help from an Aegisub dev.

For wxGTK: ./configure -with-opengl -enable-debug -enable-debug_gdb -enable-debug_cntxt -enable-stc, then after the install also run ldconfig. Then for Aegisub: ./configure -enable-debug.

I had to use the debug options, because we were debugging it, but i think it should work without them.

HDMI underscan

May 5, 2012
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The other day I was translating late night and I had to use my headphones to catch a few lines. However the output from the jack of my speakers was so crappy that I rather decided to rather fetch my HDMI cable and connect my screen using that, then use the screen’s audio output. Why didn’t I use HDMI until now, even though it’s supposed to be superior?

That’s quite simple. I tried connecting it once, then this quite big black frame showed up. I couldn’t fix it instantly so I just gave up and rather connected using the analog cable. This time I didn’t give up so easily and googled. It took me a while to figure out what this black frame thing was called at all, and then how to solve it.

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言語の変進

May 2, 2012
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もともと「変進」って言葉自体、今変化と進化を混ぜて考え出したものだし。何の話かというと、氷菓で折木が読んでた坂口安吾の堕落論を読み始めたがきっかけ。読み始めたが、苦労する。

なぜなら、50年前の日本語って超読みにくいでございます。「大君のへにこそ死なめかへりみはせじ」とかでてきたりして読んでも読んでも分からない。

日本語学校の頃一回脱亜論を読もうとした記憶があるが、まあそれは明治だしわかんなくてもびっくりはしないけど、堕落論は1946年だよ！わずか65年前なのに辞書ひかずに半分ぐらいしかわからないって何だよ。

親父もう小学生だった頃なのに読むに苦労する。それに比べてシェークスピア(16世紀)とかカント(18世紀)を原書で読んでもわかる。 頑張らなきゃね。